Tag: witches

• Sir Anthony Hopkins Performs an Exorcism in The Rite

  

  Sir Anthony Hopkins is one of those interesting actors. Best known as an incredible actor throughout his entire career, sometimes he will do movies that are, for lack of better words, slumming it – doing a movie for a paycheck. Freejack. Alexander. The Edge. The Wolfman. Red 2. To be fair, I cannot really blame […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  September 17, 2014

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Gender Studies

  Anthony Hopkins, Baal, Catholic Church, cats, Colin O’Donoghue, demonic possession, demons, Devil, empowerment, exorcism, exorcist, Freejack, mules, sexuality, The Devil Inside, The Exorcist, The Rite, toads, Vatican, voice, witches

• The Exorcist: The One That Started It All

  As part of this project on Feminist Tensions in Exorcism Cinema, we decided to watch the movies.  All of the movies, if we can get our hands on them.  We wanted to know if there were any patterns in what they were representing.  As we watched each movie, we liveblogged our experience.  Using Facebook or […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  January 15, 2014

  Film Studies, Sexuality

  Catholicism, conversion, exorcism, exorcism cinema, exorcist, Father Karras, Father Merrin, patriarchy, Pazuzu, Regan MacNeil, rhetoric of conversion, The Church, The Exorcist, Warner Brothers, William Friedkin, William Peter Blatty, witchcraft, witches